Proof of other official documents.
Section 313
SEC. 313. Proof of other official documents. — Official documents may be proved, as follows: 1. Acts of the Chief Executive of the Philippine Islands, by the record of his office, certified by his secretary under the seal thereof, if there be one; acts of the Executive of the United States, by records of the Departments of the United States Government, wherein are contained the records of such acts, certified by the heads of such departments. They may also be proved by public documents, printed by the order of the Chief Executive of the Philippine Islands, or the President of the United States, or by order of Congress, or either House thereof, or by the order of the Philippine Commission, or by the order of any legislative assembly which may be provided for the Philippine Islands. Acts of the Executive of the Philippine Islands under Spanish administration may be proved by the records thereof in the custody of the United States officials, or officials of the Government of the Philippine Islands, certified by the legal keeper of the records. They may also be proved by public documents printed by order of the Chief Executive of the Philippine Islands. Acts of the Chief Executive of Spain may be proved by the records of any department of the Executive, certified by the head of the department in which the record is; 2. The proceedings of the United States Philippine Commission, or of any legislative body that may be provided for the Philippine Islands, or of Congress, by the journals of those bodies, or of either House thereof, or by published statutes or resolutions, or by copies certified by the clerk or secretary, or printed by their order. The proceedings of the legislative branch of the Government of Spain prior to the eighteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, may be proved by public documents, or statutes or resolutions, printed by the order of the executive or legislative departments of the Government of Spain, or commonly received in that country as such, or by copy certified under the seal of either the executive or the legislative branch of the Government of Spain, or by a recognition thereof in some public act of the Executive of the United States; 3. The acts of the executive or the proceedings of the legislature of any State or Territory of the United States, in the same manner as provided in paragraphs one and two; 4. The acts of the executive or the proceedings of legislature of a foreign country, by journals published by their authority, or commonly received in that country as such, or by a copy certified under the seal of the country or sovereign, or by recognition thereof in some public act of the Executive of the United States; 5. The acts of a municipal corporation of the Philippine Islands, or of a board or department thereof, by a copy certified by the legal keeper thereof, or by a printed book published by the authority of such corporation; 6. Official documents of any other class in the Philippine Islands, by the original, or by copy certified by the legal keeper thereof; 7. Official documents of any other class in the United States, or in any State or Territory thereof, by the original, or by a copy, certified by the legal keeper thereof, together with the certificate of the secretary of state, judge of the supreme, superior, or county court, or a mayor of a city of the United States, or of such State or Territory, that the copy is duly certified by the officer having the legal custody of the original; 8. Official documents of any other class of a foreign country, by the original, or by a copy certified by the legal keeper thereof, with a certificate, under the seal of the country or sovereign, that the document is a valid and subsisting document of such country, and that the copy is duly certified by the officer having legal custody of the original; 9. Official documents in departments of the United States Government, by the certificates of the legal custodian thereof.